Upcoming Conferences and Speakers

BYU Wheatley Institution Events 

February 19, 2019, Ryan T. Anderson will give the 2019 Wheatley Roundtable on the Family keynote address.   7:30 PM- 9:00 PM   Hinckley Center Assembly Hall

February 19, 2019, Jim Parke will present as the Wheatley Ethics Distinguished Speaker

February 20, 2019, Wheatley Roundtable on the Family conference: 

9:00 AM | Catherine Pakaluk – Marriage

10:00 AM | R.J. Snell – Sexuality

11:00 AM | Jenet Erikson – Children

March 1-2, 2019, Faith in a Secular Age, with speakers James E. Faulconer, Deidre Nicole Green, Miranda Wilcox, Rosalynde Welch, Brad S. Gregory, Nathan B. Oman, Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Samuel M. Brown, and Philip L. Barlow

Conference Schedule:  Friday, March 1, Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium

8:30 am Welcome and Introduction

9:00 am “Excess and Understanding,” James E. Faulconer, Wheatley Institution

10:00 am “Embodied Epistemology,” Deidre Nicole Green, Maxwell Institute

2:00 pm “Temporal Rupture,” Miranda Wilcox, Brigham Young University

3:00 pm “Secular Hedonism,” Rosalynde Welch, Independent Scholar

7:00 pm Keynote Address, Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium

“Consumed: Affluence and Secularization in American Catholicism”

Brad S. Gregory, Director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies

Saturday, March 2, 1170 TMCB

10:00 am “Philosophy of Identity,” Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School

11:00 am  “The Nature of Community,” Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Villanova University

2:00 pm “Abundant Language,” Samuel M. Brown, University of Utah

3:00 pm “Human Perfection,” Philip L. Barlow, Maxwell Institute

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship Events

February 13, 2019, Tisa Wenger, “Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal”

BYU Religious Studies Center Easter Conference

April 12, 2019, in the Joseph Smith building. Information will be posted soon at the RSC website.